ESPN commentator Joe Buck and his wife, fellow ESPN reporter Michelle Beisner-Buck, were enjoying a round of golf on vacation in Mexico earlier this summer when Beisner-Buck suffered a painful ankle injury on the course.
On Sept. 11, Buck's Monday Night Football co-host Adam Schefter reported that Beisner-Buck underwent surgery after Buck "accidentally drove a golf ball into it." After Schefter reported the news, Buck took to social media to explain just what happened. He was seated in his car with Beisner-Buck next to him in the parking lot of the surgery center and broke down the play-by-play.
"We got to [hole] 10 and I said, 'Why don't I hit a couple of drives off 10 and then we'll go get something to eat?'" he recounted. He explained that Michelle "has been known to do headstands" throughout their relationship and went on to show off her skills.
"She did a headstand in the tee box for good luck, out into my left, and at the exact moment I was teeing off, she decided, with her feet in the air, to do the splits, thereby dropping her right leg a little bit to the side, right into my line of fire, and I hit a golf ball— TaylorMade with little designs on it—into the inside of her right ankle and shattered it," he said.
"That's right. Shattered," Beisner-Buck said. "Freak accident, though."
"If you were having a competition you would never, ever be able to do it. This was, like, God or the universe just directed this ball right into my ankle bone. And now I get to wear this," Beisner-Buck continued, pointing to her boot propped up on the dashboard.
She explained that she went through six weeks wearing a hard cast and two so far wearing the boot. Her injury ended up being worse than they originally thought; she not only had a shatter and impact break, but she also suffered severe nerve damage to her tibial nerve beneath her ankle . Still, she didn't blame her husband. "It's not his fault. It was a freak accident," she noted.
"You cannot work on your nerve damage if you can't move your foot," she said. "So once I got out of the hard cast... We started to work on it. We did non-surgical stuff like nerve blocks and lidocaine infusions. Nothing has worked."
"So, here we are, at the surgery center, ready to go in. I am having surgery right now, or in 20 minutes or so, to get my tibial nerve decompressed," she concluded. "We are hoping that this is going to free up some space so I can get some blood flow through my ankle, so that my nerves can start to work and regenerate and I can start to back to normal."
"I can start getting back to things that I love to do, like headstands."
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